Posted on 09/10/2004 7:26:06 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
The White House on Thursday accused democrat John Kerry and his surrogates of instigating a new attack on President Bush’s Vietnam-era National Guard service because Kerry is dropping in the opinion polls.
Bush also accused Kerry of refusing to reveal the true impact of his spending promises and said the Democratic presidential nominee would have to increase taxes broadly to pay for what the Bush campaign has calculated as $2 trillion in new spending. “America will reject the hidden Kerry tax plan,” Bush told supporters.
After weeks of Republican criticism of Kerry’s decorated war service in Vietnam, democrats tried to turn the tables on Wednesday with a barrage of questions about whether Bush fulfilled his military obligations in the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s.
The charges included documents that indicated that Bush did not meet performance standards and received favourable treatment. A group called Texans for Truth launched a new advertisement in which a lieutenant colonel in the Alabama Air National Guard questions whether Bush ever performed his service during a stint in Alabama.
“I think you are seeing a coordinated attack by John Kerry and his surrogates on the president,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. “The polls show Senator Kerry falling behind and it’s the same old recycled attacks that we’ve seen every time the president has come up for election.”
The Bush campaign did not believe the new accusations would gain traction among the American people. Questions raised by Bush supporters against Kerry’s Vietnam service, however, were considered a factor in Kerry’s August swoon in the polls.
A new CBS News poll showed more signs that Bush got a bounce out of the Republican nominating convention last week. It gave him a seven-point lead over Kerry among registered voters, 49% to 42%.
McClellan’s comments came as Bush campaigned in Pennsylvania, a battleground state he lost by 205,000 votes in ‘00. Polls show the race in the state to be close.
Bush devoted a speech at Byers Choice, which makes Christmas figurines, to his economic agenda, centred largely around tax cuts and job training for the unemployed. “People have got more money in their pockets because of the tax relief,” Bush said. “Our economy is stronger because people are keeping more of what they earn.”
Bush said Kerry in stead has promised new spending of $2 trillion but that his plan to take away tax cuts from those making more than $200,000 a year would only raise $650bn, leaving the rest to be raised elsewhere.
He said the Kerry campaign has not talked about how the Democrat would pay for his programs. “If they want to hold back information until the people vote, you can bet it won’t be good news for the taxpayers,” Bush said.
Bush’s speech was briefly interrupted by a handful of protesters who shouted “more money for AIDS”. Bush kept a steely grin on his face as the protesters were dragged out and the crowd shouted them down with chants of “four more years.”
Reuters absolutely sucks.
What the??? What "Republican" criticism of Kerry's war service?? Talk about out-and-out undisguised bias!!!
This was a silly attempt to thwart the Swifties and the other Vets who came out against Kerry. It's weak, and it also shows, better than anything to date, how much the MSM is in the tank for Kerry. Bush has never put his military record up there as an issue, only Kerry. They know the blew it with that, and nobody is listening to his domestic garbage, so what do they have left? 35 year old memos, that are likely fakes!! Again, Bush already said it himself, Kerry's actions in Vietnam were more heroic than his in the Guard. I don't think he should say anything else about it.
Can you find the hidden lie? It's right in plain sight.
Very clever Mr. Rueters...
With thousands dying of Cancer we are spending more money on Aids research than cancer research and cancer patients dont catch it by messing with each others anal parts.
We are spending too much on a disease that is easily prevented by abstinence from perverted acts.
Yes I do know some get it from being married to bi-sexuals, blood transfusion and other things but the majority is from perverted acts.
Can you find the hidden lie? It's right in plain sight.
Is it in the third paragraph?
analysis of the bush memo
http://img41.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img41&image=60minbusted.swf
Yep...funny how these DNC talking points find their way into - Ahem - straight news accounts.
Kerry's campaign reminds me of a Three Stooges short. All Bush has to do now is hit Kerry over the head with a vase and it's all over.
Seriously, is anyone else actually embarassed for the Dems? Maybe I should say embarassed BY the Dems... They ARE our countrymen, after all...
APf
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